Issue23 (part2) May 2017

Photographer Jakob kjeldsen (Denmark)
Tell us something about yourself
40 year old father of two and loving soul mate from Denmark. Chief Financial Officer by day time and
photographer by night time. Always carrying a camera with me so that I can be ready for that “once in a
lifetime shot”
How and when did you get into photography?
I started roughly 5 years ago more or less in a protest. I entered a MTB race and the company that sold the
pictures from it were charging a lot of money for poor work. So I thought that I would challenge them the
year after and bought my first DSLR. I never ended up completing my mission but started to do a lot within
sports photography. I quickly found a look for my pictures that I liked and people also seemed to like it to.
What does photography mean to you?
With a fulltime job filled with numbers, rules, administration then photography is my way of being creative.
Financial people are rarely seen as being creative but I believe that I’m the proof that it’s entirely correct.
Photography is many things to me – the search for the perfect picture, capturing moments and memories.
Would you consider yourself a hobbyist or a paid professional?
I guess it is neither – perhaps semiprofessional? I do paid sessions but not full time. I am not fully ready to
take the jump into full time photography.
Benni Petersen
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